Patrick Watson with the Ballets jazz de Montréal? We would go see that. On the spot. Which place ? Vanishing Melodies was to travel this winter with stops in Quebec, Sherbrooke, Rimouski and Victoriaville. But will the theaters have resumed? We are in great danger of having to fall back on our televisions, where the beautiful machine, shot in several places, with dance numbers and a patrick watsonthere without being there while being there, the crazy laughter less, will make its divine arrangements heard and seen. Pre-recorded pieces, already edited, it’s not a physical meeting. Broadcast on January 29 on Télé-Québec. lost melodies, is the title. Beautiful symbol. Splendid second best.
So let’s resume. This is not a show. This is not a return to shows. This is a virtual queue. Standby, everybody. Here is the winter return text on the forced absentees of the entertainment industry in Quebec. And the disclaimer paper, too. Here and there, there are still event announcements. Forget? Fantasies of embellishments? The promoter Evenko is full of cancellations, but we are maintaining a few evenings until further notice, thin threads for trapeze artists of hope. Charlotte Cardin at the MTelus on February 2, 3 and 28, the 1er March itou, is it really true that it will take place? We will say yes, the time to dream about it.
Between maintained hopes and lost illusions
Believe it or not, there are still some show launches planned. Here, January 28: launch-show of the new album by RobertRobert, in Quebec. Who will live will see, will see. The album will exist, let’s just promise that. Similar promise in February: The Bronze, wild things and the pianistJeans-Michel Blais are duly registered in the publication diary. New albums are already parties. Certainly incomplete celebrations, because the shows were to follow.
All this commotion, alas very shaky, would have more or less coincided, strategically, with the festival Montreal in light, which would have started on February 17. Who knows ? Let’s roll our dice around mid-March instead, for the show’s premiere With bare hands, ofEmile Proulx-Cloutier. It’s almost far away, mid-March, the wish would come true that we would believe it. From May-June, festivals try to flush out a spring of fresh air. The Francoinspire confidence: we resolutely display Good Child, Catherine Major, Lynda Lemay, Patrice Michaud, Ariane Moffatt with his incarnate matched with a set of strings, and the beautiful team of Pranks of the song (Rivard, De Larochellière, Ingrid St-Pierre, Valérie Blais, Saratoga). The Polissons in question are supposed to celebrate Brassens across Quebec in April. It would be good for the plants. And to the orderlies that we are.
The healthy discs
All this swims in the hypothetical and the medicated, let’s face it, at the mercy of the non-vaccinated, who must not be very fond of living songs. Let’s fall back on the discs. No launch or anything. The new albums of the season, which no one will prevent from appearing. Praise (Vincent Roberge) and his Crash we will come across it in a short week.
pull the coyote will soon follow, the words of‘In the first round of evidence will rock a February that will need it. The Garden, the new album by Basia Bulat, will live its outbreak at the end of February, which is also more than encouraging, not to say downright fragrant: it will be revisited songs, but they are perennial species.
The return of the “sci-fi metal” bandvoivod (that’s the official description) won’t hurt either: a brand new album from our dear veterans is an explosive joy. The title, Synchro Anarchy, already makes you travel far, very far. In March ? We may all be dancing at home, but it is sure and certain that we will be mixing our butts with the chic disco of Lisa The White. Release without crowds, but release nevertheless.
Between the second album of Swomp Rats (Elixir), the first French-language mini-album of the local group Lizzy & The Fanatics (two suns), the culmination on full disc of the electro-pop-rock musical project of Claudia Bouvette, we will find many artists in the making who, any situation having good and candy, will try to occupy the media space deserted in this winter of force, as Réjean Ducharme wrote. It is the grace that we wish them, and that we all wish each other.